Pacolet, SC 29374 Frost Dates
29374, near Pacolet, SC: the frost window
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 210 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Pacolet, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pacolet's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/04 isn't a guarantee
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pacolet against the rest of the dataset
About 210 days separate Pacolet's last and first frost, putting it 15,025 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 470 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29374: the frost range, on how to read the range around Pacolet's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Pacolet can differ from the 29374 normal.